Jeetendra
- Birthday: 07. April 1942
- Birthplace: Amritsar, Punjab Province, British India
- Awards: 1998 – Guest of Honour Award at the 18th Ujala Cinema Express Awards, 2000 – Lifetime Achievement Award in film personalities, 2002 – Lifetime Achievement Award at the Zee Gold Bollywood Movie Awards in New York, 2003 – Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award, 2004 – "Legend of Indian Cinema" Award at Atlantic City (United States), 2005 – Screen Lifetime Achievement Award, 2008 – Sansui Television Lifetime Achievement Award, 2012 – Zee Cine Award for Lifetime Achievement, 2012 – Lions Gold Awards: Most Evergreen Romantic Hero, 2014 - Dadasaheb Phalke Award
Biography
Jeetendra (born Ravi Kapoor on 7 April 1942) is an Indian actor, television, films producer and chairman of the Balaji Telefilms, Balaji Motion Pictures and ALT Entertainment. Famous for his dancing, he was awarded a Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2003, Screen Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.
Jeetendra Kapoor was born in Amritsar, Punjab to Amarnath and Krishna Kapoor whose business dealt with imitation jewellery.[citation needed] He attended St. Sebastian’s Goan High School in Girgaum, with his friend Rajesh Khanna and later on went to Siddharth College. While supplying jewellery to V. Shantaram, he was cast as Sandhya's double in the 1959 movie "Navrang".